The Eastern Punjab cricket team was an Indian domestic cricket team representing the eastern part of the Indian state of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

. It played 22 first-class matches, all in the

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, between 1950 and 1960, winning 2, losing 13 and drawing 7. It played its home matches in

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and

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. The highest individual score was 145 by

Swaranjit Singh Swaranjit Singh (born 18 July 1932) is a former Indian first-class cricketer. Singh was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Eastern Punjab and Bengal in India as well as Cambridge University and Warwickshire ...

, who hit two of the team’s four centuries. Swaranjit Singh’s 145 contributed to Eastern Punjab’s highest team total of 380. The lowest team total was 31, against

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in 1958-59. The best innings bowling figures were 6 for 35 by William Ghosh. The best match figures were 9 for 48 (5 for 15 and 4 for 33) by Som Prakash in Jammu and Kashmir’s inaugural first-class match in January 1960. That match, which Eastern Punjab won by an innings, was the only one in which they dismissed their opponents twice. After the team disbanded, many of the players joined

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or Northern Punjab, which both competed in the Ranji Trophy from 1960–61 and 1967-68. For the 1968-69 season they combined to form an undivided Punjab team.

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First-class matches played by Eastern Punjab
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